The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-18
Childs. Judge Ross is at the Montpelier

voted to bond for the proposed railroad
from Barre to that town. Engineers began
yesterday a survey of the route, and there
Is assurance that work on the new road will
begin at once.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelier
(Vt) post-offce May IA, 1887:
Miss Flora NJ. Clark, Jerry Hurlburt,
Mrs Cornelia brewery, H. J. Harris,
Mrs Ida u Estes, I'M Hyde,
Miss Ida Hobbs, l.. |. Knapp
Carlos Bingham, Geo. A. Oakes,
G. Browne, Rodee n Bill
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised and give the date
GEORGE w WING, Postmaster.
CHARLES HENRY BECKETT, son of Mr..
George Beckett, prominent citizen of
Williamstown, is the author OF a book bear
ing the title " Who is John Norman" and
just published by the well-known firm of
Cassell & Co., limited. The book comes to
this Office too late for review this week, but
is most highly commended by many con-
temporaries. 1t is for sale at the Phinney
bookstore.
j. " MoRRow's horses were so pleased
with the notice given them in the last issue
of the WATcHMAN that they at once de-
manded another by running away again,
being started by fright at some ladders
loaded upon the wagon. Morrow was
thrown to the ground and dragged some
distance, but without sustaining serious in
jury, and the horses were stopped without
damage to the wagon.
THE May term of the supreme court be-
gan yesterday morning in the room pre-
pared for sessions of this court in the new
state library building The docket contains
thirty-two civil and five state cases, the lat
ter including two cases against Alexander
Jangraw and one against Omer Miller. The
case of Charles w. Selinas against State
Agricultural Society, which comes up from
the county court on exceptions by the de-
fendant, is also on the docket. Judges
Royce, Ross, Taft and Walker sit at this
session.
THE air of the Capital last week was rem
dered most unwholesome by the dust nui-
sance and the absence of the street-sprink-
Ter. The clouds of dust which assailed
people in the streets, laden as it may have
been with germs of disease and very trying
to weak lungs, must have had deleterious
effect upon the public health, to say moth
ing of the damage to goods in the stores and
the general discomfort. There is an old
saying that every person must sooner or
later absorb peck of dirt, but most people
prefer it in homeopathic quantities. The
street-sprinkler put in a welcome appear
ance Monday morning, and the community
once more breatheS easier.
In response to urgent requests that the
band should give open-air concerts at vari-
Gus points in the village the members say
that when suitable stands are provided at
the points specified, so that the band may
be out of the crowd, away from the damp
grass and not be subject to use by small
boys as an object about which to play
hide and seek" "tag and other bolster
GUS games, they will be ready to grant the
requests most cheerfully. The Pavilion
stand was erected for this very purpose and
the band should not be asked to play else
/ where until suitable accommodations are
provided. No band sounds as well when
| playing upon the ground as when at an ele
walton, and the annoyance of being run
against and knocked about while playing
or having dozen people peering over ones
shoulders is such as no one should be asked
to undergo.
A PAPER dated May 16, and circulated by
a committee appointed at the busines:
mems meeting, and which reads as follows
eve, the undersigned, business men o
Montpelier agree to close our places o
business at seven o'clock p. NJ, except Sat
urday evening, that we, our employees anC
customers may attend the union gospel serv
Rev. DIR. Pentecost, " has been signed by j. G
Emery, Howe & Wheatley, John V Brooks
Weston & Smith George NJ. Scribner, Pecks
& Cummins, Barrows & Peck, S. S. Towne
& Son, Gleason & Co., A. g. Stone, H. c
Webster, G.. E. Taplin, C. H. Shipman
Temple & Co. II. L. Slayton, Daniel F
Long, l.. p. Gleason & Co., w. S. French
f. III. Aldrich, ID. l.. Fuller & Son, A. A
Mead, A. C. Harlow, A. n. Blanchard, II
I. Whitney, e. d. Hyde, j. " Babcock, C
w. Skinner.
SOME one was leading a cow on Middlese,
street Saturday afternoon, when the anima
became violent and unmanageable, and
breaking loose, went tearing down the stree
toward State street. AT the corner of Mid
dlesex and Baldwin streets she encountered
Mrs. III. ID. Hopkins, who thought to frightei
the animal away by spreading her paraso
in its face. She was mistaken, for the Gov
rushed upon her with her head down, de
molished the parasol and inflicted slgh
bruises with her horns, but fortunately be
came tangled in the ruins of the paraso
and fell. John Jones came to the rescue
encountered the furious beast and retire,
with disjonted shoulder. While the doc
tor was being summoned and the joint wa
being set the cow ran up State street, over
took another lady near the Pavilion an,
after tearing her dress slightly and he
parasol muchly, proceeded up the street an,
was seized by some men and secured witt
great difficulty to an electric light pole.
THE much-advertised play of ALVIN Jos
lin " by Charles l.. Davis and his company
at the Blanchard Opera-house on Thursda,
evening, was witnessed by small audi
ence, and, with the exception of the eS
cellent orchestra, was disappointment I
many. The company has but two or thre
actors of average merit, and Mr.. Davi
speaks in too low tone to be heard dis
tinctly at much distance from the stage
As an imitator of Josh Whitcomb" he i
not a success. There were some funn
things in the play, and two or three effectiv
scenes, but it is marred by incongruties
The court scene was rather remarkable
the prisoner being tried for murder, with
out the appearance of counsel on eithe
over the display of 100000 worth of " dis
monds," the music was the superlative al
traction, and without this feature and tn
night scene on the pier the performanc
would hardly have been worth Ito use on
of Mr., Joslin's favorite expressions) thre
shakes of lambs tail"
A GREAT bereavement came to the hous,
holds of Mrs. Margaret Jane Almon an
Harper w. Pitkin in the death of the b,
loved daughter, sister, wife and mother o
Saturday morning of last week. Mary An
Almon, one of five children of the lat
Joseph Almon, was born in Montpelit
September 9, 1861, and this had always bee
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